What's Ahead for a Cooperative Regulatory Agenda on Artificial Intelligence?

In her first major speech to a U.S. audience after the U.S. presidential election, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen laid out priority areas for transatlantic cooperation. She proposed building a new relationship between Europe and the United States, one that would encompass transatlantic coordination on digital technology issues, including working together on global standards for regulating artificial intelligence (AI) aligned with EU values. A reference to cooperation on standards for AI was included in the New Transatlantic Agenda for Global Change issued by the Commission on December 2, 2020. In remarks to Parliament on January 22, 2021, President von der Leyen called for "creating a digital economy rule book" with the United States that is "valid worldwide." Some would say Europe's new outreach on issues of tech governance and the suggestion of establishing an "EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council" is incongruous to the current regulatory war being waged against ...